St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-05
WILL PREPARE ADDR Ess.
The Executive Committee of the
Farmers Alliance Will Review
the work of the Legislature.

The Executive Committee of The
Farmers Alliance VIII Review
the work of the Legislature.
The executive committee of the Farmers
alliance held two secret sessions yesterday
at the Merchants hotel. There were present
Messrs. Canning, Barrett. Atwood. Boon,
Diamond, Hague. Furlong, Richmond and
Olson. After some discussion of the sub
ject committee consisting of Messrs. Bar
rett, HOdgSon. Diamond. Olson, Canning,
Atwood and Hague was appointed to draw
an address to the subordinate alliances Civ
ing review of the measures passed, as
well as those that were not passed by
the legislature, also advice as to
the future policy Of the alliance.
A committee on finance was also appointed,
consisting of Messrs. Atwood Richmond and
Boon. Gen. Barrett and Erick Olson were
appointed to attend to the publication of
alliance documents. The sessions were long.
and there was free discussion of alliance
affairs, in which members of the late legis-
lature, also members of the alliance who
were present, participated. The address
which the alliance proposes to prepare and
scatter broadcast, it is given out will con-
tain some interesting reading matter
HE WAS NOT AN EXPREsSMAN.
James Dillon. a Quarter Million
aire, Mistaken for a Driver of a
Dray.
There is in st. Paul well-known char
acter named James Dillon, an Irishman of
considerable learning and wit. BY careful
economy and shrewd dealing Mr. Dillon
has accumulated, during the thirty years of
his residence in st. Paul, goodly fortune,
variously estimated at from a quarter to
half million dollars. Mr.. Dillon has
never made any ostentatious display of his
riches in his manner of living or attire, and
like the elder Astor has never departed
from the principles of economy and thrift
by which he acquired his wealth. In his
daily rounds about town, collect
ing rents and transacting his business,
Mr.. Dillon rides In an ill-shaped
and somewhat rickety old spring wagon,
drawn By spawned animal with no pre-
tensions to beauty. whose raw bones seem
only to be hung together by the skin that
covers them. and the patched up harness
that flaps loosely over. Mr.. Dillon is a
high license Irishman. and during the SEES
sion of the legislature has been a frequent
standing on the sidewalk. close by his prim-
tive conveyance. in eontemplative mood,
when a slap on the shoulder called him to
time, and a gentleman belonging to the
corps of legislative officers addressed him:
Il say. Express, you want job?"
Mr.. Dillon did not seem to grasp the gen.
tlemau's meaning, and stared blankly with
out reply.
You're an expressman, amt your" the
other went on. 1--WE got a trunk up at my
boarding house l want taken to the depot,
and if you amt engaged you better go right
up ,f'
Mr.. Dillon, with all his modesty, retains
a certain pride of station, and when he got
at the gentleman's meaning his reply was
more forcble than elegant The gentle
man apologized profuselY. and Mr.. Dillon,
mounting his chariot, drove off, casting a
whitening look of scorn over his shoulder as
the steed broke into an ambling trot.